DexpotI was looking for a virtual desktop manager with which I could have different desktop icons on each virtual desktop. This is the best one I came across. It's small, it's fast, and it's free. (And it's German-engineered, as someone on a forum said about it.)

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CalibreAn open source solution for keeping track of all your e-books, including PDFs. The nice thing is that you can download metadata from online, including a cover picture.

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Notepad++The best (and only) all-purpose text editor I've used. The best part is it has syntactical highlighting for several programming languages, including the ones I use most: PHP, JavaScript, and HTML.

Aptana StudioAvailable stand-alone and as an Eclipse plugin, I've been using Aptana Studio of late for PHP development. I was able to integrate WampServer into it so that I can preview pages within Eclipse without having to swith to the browser.